Re: Rebloomers already for John !
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Chris,
No flames intended. But I guess you are right about not asking a question.
John
Christopher Darlington wrote:
> John ,
>
> I don't believe I asked a question..... but many people offered useful
> information after reading my post. I feel as if your dragons are
> flaming me for no reason.
>
> Christopher Darlington
>
> John Jones wrote:
> >
> >
> > Chris ( and everyone for that matter)
> >
> > I don't want you to take this reply as an indication that you shouldn't
> > post any question you want to the list, you should. There are always new
> > answers that come up, but in this case there is a lot of good
> > information in the archives to augment what ever replies you may get (I
> > see that Colleen sent one already). Search on "storing pollen" or
> > "freezing pollen" (one at a time and including the quotes) and go from there.
> >
> > Christopher Darlington wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The bad part of this for me is that this unexpected rebloom erases all
> > > possibilities of seeing these cultivars bloom for me next spring in my
> > > climate , zone 5 . The best I can hope for is rebloom next fall which
> > > doesn't help me because I ordered these irises for breeding as well.
> > > I'm going to collect the pollen and freeze it in hopes that it'll still
> > > be viable next spring. All of my pollen freezing experiments failed
> > > this year but weather conditions were hardly ideal , so I'll blame my
> > > failures on the weather ;-)
> > >
> >
> > --
> >
> > John | "There be dragons here"
> > | Annotation used by ancient cartographers
> > | to indicate the edge of the known world.
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| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
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